The Great Irish Hope in Texas lost the Senate bid against Ted Cruz. But check out the truckloads of cash that was spent to try to flip the seat blue…
Robert ‘Beto’ Francis O’Rourke did not win in Texas.
Beto’s skateboarding, air drumming to ‘Teenage Wasteland‘, hanging out at Whataburger, the creepy revamp of The Village People’s YMCA, nor his far-left policies helped him win.
The other thing that didn’t help him was the massive influx of cash that flowed into his campaign. O’Rourke had raised more money than any other person running for a Senate seat in history. Many Hollywood celebrities threw money at him hoping to unseat Senator Cruz. In the end, O’Rourke had raised about $70 million dollars, most of which was from crowdfunding source, ActBlue.
That’s a crapton of cash.
And he refused to share it with other Democrats.
As if to rub salt in the wound, one conservative broke down the numbers by vote and revealed the ‘waste’.
US Senate for Texas
2012, Paul Sadler
Raised: $705,027
Votes: 3,194,927
$/Vote: $0.22 each2018, Beto O'Rourke
Raised: $69,240,350+
Votes (11:33pm ET): 3,413,259+
$/Vote: $20.29 eachAllllllll that money for just 200K+ more votes?
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 7, 2018
It completely triggered the left, some of whom still see Beto as the perfect contender against President Trump in 2020.
Really.
[Editor’s note: I don’t take people seriously when they use the word ‘super’ like that in an unironic way, and neither should you.]that's a super dishonest/ over simplified look at it, but sure
— Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor) November 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/ValeriaPugliesi/status/1060146787376398336
Not to the left — it’s complicated variables and it looks more like this:
Not so much. It was apparently easy enough to be contained within a tweet in fewer than 280 characters.
But this guy wouldn’t let it go. He ‘ackshully’-ed Doucette:
There’s a clear difference between data and interpretation, actually. Pretending otherwise is out of character, even if it’s for a pithy quip. You are saying that all other factors that sway an election are the same? Seriously?
— Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor) November 7, 2018
Doucette just shared the numbers, he wasn’t interpreting the data.
No, I'm saying dropping 100x as much money for that end result is idiotic, and not the ROI of someone who could seriously threaten Donald Trump in 2020https://t.co/9V0hJ8TIFK
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 7, 2018
To hear the people in this thread tell it, Beto is The One™ and anyone arguing otherwise is a moron
Tbh I have no cluehttps://t.co/dxKJS0V2ab
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 7, 2018
Of course, the left defends Beto spending the truckloads of cash on the possibility of a Senate seat.
https://twitter.com/WhoIsDaveT/status/1060032770636865536
Never claimed he shouldn't spend it. Just said he's not the Ds' answer for POTUS in two years.https://t.co/81DFMMuBbQ
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 7, 2018
The data appears to show that it just wasn’t worth it.
But then, maybe they’re trying to find some meaning in it…
Doucette then confused them with facts.
Cornyn/Alameel in 2014 was $6.44/vote
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 7, 2018
He didn’t back down despite the nonsense flung at him.
Better than majoring in ad hominem
¯_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/MwMpOFskOk
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 7, 2018
No, Dave, you didn't hurt my feelings. I've been called worse by better.https://t.co/FUb75KXb8H
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 7, 2018
Do you usually keep spastically replying to people like this? https://t.co/ooIoTKqeR8
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 7, 2018
Midterm to midterm comparisons were included as well, but that would require reading before commenting and I know that's not trendy these days https://t.co/thzAsmjzEZ
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 7, 2018
And after all that cash dropped on Beto for his loss, Beto drops an F-bomb in his concession speech on live TV:
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